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From forced conversion to genocide: How Yazidis carry centuries of persecution into exile

· By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
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From his window in northern Syria, in a rural Kurdish area between Hasakah, Qamishli, and Amuda, “S” could still see the Sinjar Mountains in Iraq, the same mountains thousands of Yazidis fled through in 2014 to escape the mass killings, abductions, and rapes carried out as part of an Islamization campaign led by the…

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